Mothers Makers

Artist Bio/Description: We met in the tender, disorienting early months of new parenthood—a time when identities shift and creative lives can go quiet. This show is our refusal to let them.

The five of us have continued making work through feedings and nap windows, through exhaustion and wonder, through the profound strangeness of watching a new person become themselves while you become something new too. Our practices look different from one another, but we return again and again to the same terrain: the domestic as a site of meaning, the body as a keeper of time, the self that persists and changes beneath and alongside the role of mother.

We are artists who are also mothers. We are mothers who are also, still, artists. This show is about refusing to choose.

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Amanda Rose — textiles

Amanda Rose is a painter and textile artist. Her shibori-dyed linen work mirrors the discomfort and beauty of identity in transformation — cloth bound, compressed, and released, the final pattern never fully known until it opens. The process demands a surrender of control she is still learning to offer, both at the dyeing table and in the unfolding of early motherhood. In the compression and release of resist dyeing she finds a language for this particular season: the pressure that brings clarity, the letting go that reveals what was always taking shape

Sarah Aubin — photography

Sarah seeks to be a thorough observer, studying the relationships between contrasting ideas: depth and buoyancy, pressure and weightlessness, the serious and the ridiculous. Curiosity and intention guide her work, grounded in reverence for the shifting tides of nature, of being human, of being in relation.

Morgan Terry — fiber arts

Morgan is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Their work for this show reflects on early parenthood and the labor of presence in the soft liminal time of infancy — stitched portraits on satin quilts, an homage to the pillows their mother made for them, and now a gift made in turn for their own child.

Jaimie Baird — ceramics & video

Jaimie Baird crafts functional and sculptural ceramics in the bursts of space and inspiration allotted in early parenthood.
Working primarily in stoneware and terracotta, her pieces bear the indelible marks of their making — a memory of touch and transformation held in the clay. Her recent body of work draws from her experience of motherhood- the weight, the joy, the giving and receiving. The simultaneous strength and emptiness of a vessel.

Courtney Astrea Stroming — sculpture

Courtney Astrea Stroming explores her matrescence journey by investigating her evolving identity through both the emotional and physical dimensions of her body. Against the backdrop of a shifting social and political climate, her work lingers in the space between transformation and expectation, tracing the complexities of modern motherhood and gender.

Medium : Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics, Fiber & Textile Art, Multiple Media

Studio Tour Days: Saturday, Sunday

Studio Address: 1014 U Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368, United States

Email: jaimiecabaird@gmail.com

Medium: Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics, Fiber & Textile Art, Multiple Media

Stairs: No

Shared Studio: Yes (with Morgan Terry, Courtney Stromming, Amanda Rose, Sarah Aubin, Jaimie Baird)